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Article #435Re: E-mail Privacy
From: Rodney Peck II
Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 21:52
Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 21:52
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In article <1991May30.203700.25025@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes: >None of the responses to this question seem to consider the fact that >the email which he was asked to retrieve was sent by the same person >who wants it. If the sender had made a carbon copy, this wouldn't be >necessary. But since the sender wrote the memo in the first place, is >this really a violation of privacy in the sense that the sender >would learn something he didn't already know? I think so -- since the sender didn't bother to make himself a CC, he's really just out of luck. If I fax something to you as my employee and throw away the original, can I rummage through your office when you are fired to get a copy of the fax? no. How is strolling through the backup tapes any different? -- Rodney
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Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.unix.admin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!rodney From: rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) Subject: Re: E-mail Privacy Message-ID: <9tnh_wg@rpi.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: ipl.rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY References: <15110@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <1991May30.203700.25025@amd.com> Date: 30 May 91 21:52:28 GMT Lines: 15